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Biodiversity

The richness of life on Earth — the species, ecosystems, and genetic diversity we depend on and are losing.

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Books
Book

The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert

A Pulitzer Prize winner on the species humans are currently driving to extinction. Essential and devastating.

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People
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Elizabeth Kolbert

Staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 whose 2014 Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer for general non-fiction. Made the scale of human-caused species loss legible without turning the reader away.

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Institutions
Institution

Half-Earth Project

E.O. Wilson's proposal: protect half the Earth's land and sea to save biodiversity. A serious and moving vision.

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Tools & media
Tool

GBIF — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

An open-access database with over 2 billion records of life on Earth. Extraordinary.

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In wildness is the preservation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau